Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject: When is the censusplus.lua written to?

I'm trying to use uniuploader to automatically upload every hour or so (while im playing).

When the "auto-upload on file changes" is selected it only seems to upload on wow exit or when i do a purge. How often is the .lua actually written to, is it uniuploader missing the changes to the file or are the changes stored in memory and written on game exit?

yeah, I just reload my UI regularly while in flight or something, or right when I go bio I've got a fubar plugin for it too, so I don't have to keep typing it out... I used to have a macro for it but I like the little plugin better _________________US-Whisperwind:
Kayni, Resto Shaman
Scenario, MW Monk

Well it really depends on how many other people are doing uploads for your server(s). If you're the only one, then the data will just be behind. If you're not though, then when your data comes in behind the other data that's more updated than yours, then your data is discarded I believe. Overall, once a day should be just fine, but some people like to update more often than that for more update numbers on here. _________________US-Whisperwind:
Kayni, Resto Shaman
Scenario, MW Monk

On Monday you capture someone lvl 63. You submit and it shows here that he's 63.
On Tuesday he lvl's to 64 and you capture that. You don't submit
On Wednesday he lvl's again to 65 and you capture it. You submit.
The data here will only show he's 63 and then 65. And not 64

Thats why you got to submit often. So to keep the history accurate

The lua file keeps track of the last date, lvl, and guild each person was seen. Not the last time. Time is not recorded on the character. So while you saw the person lvl 64, when the lua sees him at 65 it records that and doesn't care if you submitted your data or not._________________Click my sig

Ahhhh, now it makes sense.
Would also explain why a character I haven't played for years, on an account I haven't paid for years either, still shows up on the search
(Had a US account back before the Euro version was released)